Marine Research Student Colloquium
2022 Colloquium: Saturday, October 15
The Ultimate Mouthful: How The Largest Baleen Whales Feed
Some of the largest baleen whales—such as blue whales, fin whales and humpbacks—fall into a family called rorquals that use an unusual method of feeding. These whales feed on aggregations of zooplankton and fish by lunging with their mouths open wide to tremendous gape angles to force huge volumes of water and prey into their expandable oral cavities. This extreme lunge feeding strategy is facilitated by some of the most bizarre anatomical adaptations, many of which are unique among mammals. This talk will present new insights using tag technology into how the largest vertebrates ever subsist on the smallest food.
2021 Colloquium archives:
- Schedule
- Oral Presentation Abstracts
- Poster Presentation Abstracts
- Best Presentation Awards
- Information for Presenters
- Colloquium Zoom Links
- Colloquium Posters
Event Sponsors
College of Charleston's Graduate Program in Marine Biology
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum
Charleston Chapter of Sigma Xi
Charleston Audubon and Natural History Society
Colloquium Keynote Speakers to date
The Marine Research Student Colloquium of the Graduate Program in Marine Biology (GPMB) was established in 1998, to increase awareness of research activities by students and faculty affiliated with GPMB; to provide graduate students with experience in making scientific presentations; and to promote interactions among faculty and students conducting research in marine biology.
The following distinguished researchers joined us as keynote speakers in previous years:
2021 Dr. Brian Bowen, Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
2020 Cancelled - COVID
2019 Dr. Sheila N. Patek, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University
2018 Dr. Sandra Brooke, Florida State University
2017 Dr. Billie Swalla, University of Washington
2016 Dr. David Hastings, Eckerd College
2015 Dr. Daniel Huber, University of Tampa
2014 Dr. Dean Grubbs, Florida State University & Coastal Marine Laboratory
2013 Dr. Felicia Coleman, Florida State University & Coastal Marine Laboratory
2012 Dr. Thomas Near, Yale University
2011 Dr. John Bruno, University of North Carolina
2010 Dr. Win Watson, University of New Hampshire
2009 Dr. Erik Sotka, CofC & Dr. Geoff Scott, Hollings Marine Laboratory
2009 Dr. Steve Palumbi, Hopkins Marine Station & Stanford University
2008 Dr. James T. Carlton, Williams College & Williams-Mystic Program
2007 Dr. Peter Wainwright, University of California, Davis
2006 Dr. Jeffrey Levinton, State University of New York at Stony Brook
2005 Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
2004 Dr. Malcolm Shick, School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine
2003 Dr. Walter Boynton, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Univ. of Maryland
2002 Dr. Larry Crowder, Duke Marine Laboratory, Duke University
2001 Dr. Lauren Mullineaux, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
2000 Dr. John Pearse, Institute of Marine Science, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
1999 Dr. Ken Tenore, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland